Wave Systems Corp. (fka WAVXQ)

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Wavey--Steven Sprague/Wave to protect TEE IP?
Yea, that TEE which is core to both Intel and Trustonic. Steve Sprague and Wave have patents on that essential Trusted Computing technology.

One more reason why I comfortably wait for the World to catch up to this little ole company.

MAY 2013

http://www.futureinreview.com/agenda/

2:30p - 3:00p FiRe CTO Design Challenge: "Getting to Zero: Achieving Zero Loss of Crown-Jewel Intellectual Property - A CXO Checklist"

Hosted and judged by Steven Sprague, CEO, Wave Systems, and Founding Member, INVNT/IP; Gus Hunt, CTO to the CIO, CIA; and a Special Guest TBA


http://blog.wave.com/allen/trustonic-sounds-clarion-call-for-trusted-computing-in-mobile/

December 19, 2012
Trustonic: Sounding Clarion Call for Trusted Computing in Mobile
Yesterday’s announcement of Trustonic, a new venture from ARM (the UK-based chip company), Gemalto and Giesecke & Devrient, signaled that industry was finally getting serious about the need for trust built into smart connected devices—just as more and more consumers and corporate users look to conduct commerce or financial transactions on their tablets or smartphones. Trustonic’s formation stands as a validation of the transformational role Trusted Computing will play in the mobile device security of tomorrow.

Wave is an official launch partner, and it’s fitting, as we’ve been one of the most strident advocates for a safer, more trusted computing environment for more than a decade now, since we introduced our EMBedded Application Security SYstem, or EMBASSY solution. EMBASSY included a chip that provided a programmable trusted execution environment (TEE) that securely ran ‘trustlets.’


Trustonic plans to standardize a very similar programmable hardware-based security capability in mobile and embedded devices based on an ARM architecture known as TrustZone. (Wave officially joined the ARM Trust Zone-ready program in September.) Since ARM processors, including the TrustZone feature, dominate the mobile industry, this strategic alliance provides a path to strong, hardware-based security, which is based on open industry standards. Trustonic will offer TrustZone software and firmware, which will enable a programmable TEE based on specifications from the GlobalPlatform group. The TEE can support multiple secure applications.

One of the TEE applications, which is being standardized by the Trusted Computing Group (TCG) is the Trusted Platform Module-Mobile (TPM-M), a firmware version of the TPM. While the TPM-M executes in the TEE, the TPM’s keys are actually held in hardware within the device to provide highly secure roots of trusts for the device. The new draft proposal from NIST, 800-164, for security in mobile devices, specifies hardware roots of trust as the foundation of new, industry standard security. In February, Wave demonstrated an Android device with a TPM-Mobile running inside of TrustZone/TEE provided by one of the new Trustonic partners, Trusted Logic, a division of Gemalto.

As TPM-Mobile is adopted by the mobile industry, Wave Systems plans to extend its current Trusted Computing products and infrastructure to provide interoperability and cross-platform compatibility across PC, tablets and mobile devices. In addition, the TPM-Mobile specifications from the TCG provide the ability for a TPM-M to support a trust model known as the Multiple Stakeholder Model (MSM). The MSM model allows the TPM-M to provide strong, independent security to multiple entities in the platforms such as enterprises, third party application developers, the handset vendor, and network operators. The original Wave EMBASSY 2100 chipset and trust infrastructure supported a multi-party trust model. EMBASSY was very similar to the new open, standard trust solution being offered to the industry.